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The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has reviewed the P–10 Australian Curriculum to ensure it meets the needs of students and teachers, now and into the future.
The Australian Curriculum achievement standards provide a fixed frame of reference and a shared language to use when describing student achievement. For each learning area or subject, the achievement standards are statements of what students should know and be able to do at the end of a year or a band of years.
In Queensland, all schooling sectors collaboratively decided that the achievement standard is the C standard (or equivalent) against which judgments are made on a five-point scale (commonly A–E).
Schools plan their curriculum and assessment programs to ensure what is taught informs how it is taught, how students are assessed, and how progress and learning are reported.
The P–10 Planning app in the QCAA Portal gives schools a fast and efficient way to create year level/band curriculum and assessment plans, assessment tasks and marking guides directly aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.0.
Curriculum planning is essential for contextualising curriculum content and assessment to meet the needs of all students.
Curriculum connections between learning areas may be used to engage students in purposeful and authentic contexts for learning, where clear conceptual links are evident. Learning area connection resources support teachers to plan using ACARA identified related content connections.
The following templates support effective unit planning. Schools can modify planning tools to meet their context and needs.
The following resources provide examples of curriculum planning.
Assessment is the ongoing process of gathering, analysing and reflecting on evidence to make informed judgments about the achievement or capabilities of individuals and cohorts. It plays an integral role in improving student learning and informing teaching.
The following sections contain links to assessment and reporting advice, resources to support the design of quality assessment, such as techniques and conditions and standards elaborations, and resources to support quality assurance and effective feedback.
The following information outlines the K–12 assessment position of the QCAA and provides a foundation for building and clarifying knowledge and understanding of assessment literacy.
Schools are required to provide parents/carers with a report on each student twice a year. In most schools, this takes place at the end of each semester.
Schooling sectors and/or employing authorities provide advice for schools about reporting requirements.
Quality assessment gives students the best possible opportunity to demonstrate what they know, understand and can do. It provides meaningful information about students’ strengths, learning needs and achievements. Quality assessment improves teaching and helps students learn.
Techniques and conditions provide advice that supports teachers to develop range and balance within an assessment program, giving students the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and skills across a year or band of years.
The QCAA has developed standards elaborations from the Australian Curriculum achievement standards. The standards elaborations provide teachers with a resource for making consistent, comparable and defensible judgments about how well, on a five-point scale, students have demonstrated what they know, understand and can do.
The standards elaborations can be used to:
- make consistent and comparable judgments, on a five-point scale, about the evidence of learning in a folio of student work across a year/band of learning
- develop task-specific marking guides for individual assessment tasks
- quality assure planning documents to ensure coverage of the achievement standard across a year/band of years.
The following templates support effective curriculum and assessment planning for multi-age contexts.
Introduction to quality assurance. We can have an intro, then some docs attached to the top section. Then we can have sub-groups if we want.
Judgments about evidence of student learning are made using the Australian Curriculum achievement standard, which represents the C standard (or equivalent).
Teachers make judgments about the evidence in student work using task-specific standards that contribute to a planned assessment folio. Teachers can use the standards elaborations to create task-specific standards for making judgments about student work.
Moderation can strengthen quality assessment practices by supporting teachers to make consistent and comparable judgments about students’ progress and achievement.
Feedback provides meaningful information about students’ strengths and areas for improvement to support them to progress their learning.
The QCAA has developed sample assessments in partnership with Queensland schools to illustrate the use of the achievement standards in making judgments about student work.
The QCAA provides professional development resources to assist schools and teachers in planning for and implementing the Australian Curriculum Version 9.0.
These resources capture professional learning that has been delivered by the QCAA in workshops or webinars. Teachers can use these resources to support their ongoing learning.
The familiarisation and planning series consists of three recorded sessions and accompanying worksheets that explore the learning area and/or subject changes from v8.4 to v9.0.
The familiarisation and planning presentation explores the learning area and/or subject changes from v8.4 to v9.0 and provides considerations for planning in your context.
The familiarisation and planning series consists of three recorded sessions and accompanying worksheets that explore the learning area and/or subject changes from v8.4 to v9.0.
- Last updated:
- 5 December 2024
